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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-522 Ruby Tang v. Somerset House Condominium Association, Inc., et al. Maryland 2025-10-29 Denied constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing judicial-procedure legal-fees state-court Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to deny a statutorily guaranteed de novo evidentiary hearing after collecting the required fees, …
24-660 Misop Baynun v. Bruce Hiltunen, et al. Massachusetts 2024-12-18 Denied Response Waived appeals-court constitutional-rights first-amendment judicial-procedure legal-fees religious-freedom In accord with Supreme Court Rule 10(c), since a state court "has decided an important federal question in a way that conflicts with relevant decision…
24-565 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-11-20 Denied constitutional-rights counsel-representation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court-procedure 1. May a state court elect to contravene its own state laws, which explicitly require the award of legal fees and representation of counsel, in violat…
24A282 Linnea W. v. Matthew P. New York 2024-09-19 Presumed Complete custody-trial due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment legal-fees state-court Whether the New York State Court of Appeals denied Petitioner her Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process, a fair trial and equal protect…
23-697 Tony Evers, in His Official Capacity as Governor of Wisconsin v. Michael Dean, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-12-28 Denied Response Waived appellate-mandate civil-procedure costs district-court fees judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction legal-fees sanctions sanctions-motion section-1927 It is "well established that a federal court may consider collateral issues," including "motions for costs and attorney's fees," even after the underl…
20-5296 A. I. v. M. A. New Jersey 2020-08-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure conflict-of-interest due-process expert-reliability judicial-bias judicial-system legal-fees standing trial-reversal Should a litigant be fully responsible for legal and expert fees of a reversed trial when experts were unreliable and no bad faith is shown?
19-1394 Edward Ronny Arnold v. Herbert Slatery, III, Attorney General of Tennessee Sixth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-action civil-procedure civil-procedure-rooker-feldman civil-rights damages due-process federal-courts legal-fees pro-se-litigation rooker-feldman-doctrine sixth-circuit-court standing state-courts state-employee-wages Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit misapplied the Rooker-Feldman doctrine
19-8641 Samir Hanna v. California California 2020-06-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit civil-procedure court-fees declaration in-forma-pauperis indigent-status legal-fees poverty pro-se-litigation redress Whether the petitioner is entitled to proceed in forma pauperis
19-7922 Scott L. Rendelman v. William True, Warden Seventh Circuit 2020-03-10 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights court-of-appeals docketing-fee due-process legal-fees non-frivolous-appeal prison prison-discipline prisoner-rights standard-of-review standing Whether 'some evidence' is required to support a finding on every element of a prison disciplinary offense, or if 'some evidence' supporting any singl…
18-1225 Vladimir Matsiborchuk v. Fougere Holcombe Second Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied attorney-client attorney-compensation attorney-fees civil-rights discharge-hearing due-process judicial-bias judicial-delay judicial-misconduct legal-fees quantum-meruit retaliation settlement-agreement Whether deprivation of legal fees earned by an attorney during 7 years of work for former client violates due-process, whether attorney was deprived o…
18-1136 Beverly L. Hennager v. Troutman Sanders LLP Fourth Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response Waived attorney-fees charging-liens civil-procedure civil-rights client-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment legal-ethics legal-fees pro-se-representation standing Whether charging liens should be clarified to apply only to judgments obtained with the lawyer's assistance, not client funds, to protect constitution…
18-765 James H. Brady v. New York, et al. New York 2018-12-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure civil-rights discretionary-action due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity legal-fees obstruction-of-justice property-rights prosecutorial-immunity prosecutorial-misconduct quid-pro-quo sanctions standing takings Did the Appellate Division, First Department err in finding Respondents immune pursuant to Imbler v. Pachtman, 424 U.S. 409 (1976)?